Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA collision of cultures, class, and catastrophic misunderstanding — E. M. Forster's debut novel, Where Angels Fear to...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of Victorian imagination and imperial anxiety lies The Savage in Literature, a rigorous critical study that examines how English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Few Victorian writers provoked, amused, and unsettled their contemporaries quite like Samuel...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Set against the shadow-laden streets of wartime London during the Blitz, The Heat...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat separates a story from mere sequence of events? In The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction, one of the twentieth century's most formidable...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the blazing, mystical backdrop of sixteenth-century Mughal India, The Near and the Far is a profound...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it mean to be a hero in a society that demands ideological conformity? Rufus W. Mathewson Jr.'s The Positive Hero in Russian...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most celebrated works in the English literary canon, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales presents a vivid...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the volatile intersection of ideology and imagination, Irving Howe's Politics and the Novel stands as one of the most penetrating works...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it truly mean to *hear* James Joyce? Hugh Kenner's Joyce's Voices presents a penetrating critical study of the narrative techniques...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the grand tradition of Australian bush poetry, How M'Dougall Topped the Score is a rollicking, comic masterpiece that immortalises a hilariously chaotic...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched bush tracks to the rowdy pubs of colonial Australia, Henry Lawson's gift for comic storytelling captures the larrikin spirit of a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the vivid, sun-scorched landscape of rural Australia, The Rainbow Bird by Vance Palmer chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNorman Lindsay's The Cousin from Fiji is a sparkling comic novel set in the boisterous world...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the turbulent backdrop of seventeenth-century Lombardy under Spanish rule, The Betrothed chronicles the harrowing journey of two young peasants, Renzo and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodBoris Pasternak — poet, novelist, and one of the most enigmatic literary figures of twentieth-century Russia — receives a thorough and illuminating...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the grand sweep of American literary history, few eras crackle with as much creative electricity as the mid-nineteenth century, and Van...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most ambitious and enduring works in classical Chinese literary criticism, The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons — originally composed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodTwo of the most transcendent works in all of Western literature, Purgatorio and Paradiso form the concluding canticles of Dante Alighieri's immortal epic The...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the English language have seared the conscience of a nation quite like Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens' second novel follows the orphaned Oliver —...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the pen of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated Nobel laureates comes The Holy Sinner, Thomas Mann's audacious retelling of the medieval legend of...